Floy, Edith and Sarah Boston

A 4"x6" glass plate negative, full figure portrait photograph of Floy and Edith Boston, David City, Nebraska, and their grandmother, Sarah Boston. The girls are both wearing light-colored, long-sleeve dresses with gathered, knee-length skirts, wide ruffle trim on the bodice and eyelet ruffle at the jewel neckline, dark tights and dark, high-top shoes. Their grandmother is seated in a wood chair with high back, wearing a black, floor-length, long-sleeve dress with small, round buttons and vertical tucks up the bodice, and a stand collar with several necklaces. Edith is sitting on the arm of the chair and Floy is standing. They are in front of a painted backdrop that features an ivy-covered column.

Sarah Durstine was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1833. She married John A. Boston, November 6, 1852. She and John lived in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa and Sheridan County, Nebraska, before moving to David City, Nebraska, February, 1891. John worked as a farmer and ran a blacksmith shop while living in David City. John and Sarah Boston were the parents of six children: William, Orrin, John H., Mrs. Mary Freese, Harvey L. and Mrs. William Wyatt. Sarah died February 10, 1907, in David City and is buried in the David City Cemetery.Edith and Floy Boston were the daughters of Harvey L. and Margaret Patterson Boston. As daughters of the local photographer, many photographs of them as children have survived in the Boston Studio negative collection. They attended David City public schools and both attended and graduated from Grand Island College. Floy married A.C. Hurlbert in 1925. After teaching in several Nebraska communities, A.C. "Prof" and Floy moved back to David City in 1945 to assume management of the Boston Studio. Edith assisted her father in the studio and following his death in 1927, assumed active management of the studio along with her mother. Edith married Anton Proskovec in 1941 and moved to Omaha but continued to commute to David City to operate the studio until her brother-in-law took over the business in 1945. Floy passed away in 1977 and Edith died in 1986.